Top 100 There Are Quotes
#1. Because, man, if this city ain't Caleb's mountain, I don't know what is, and those giants out there are just stomping people into the ground.
Richard Price
#2. There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
Jane Goodall
#3. Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
Walter Moers
#5. Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
Alice Cooper
#7. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
#8. As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
Neal A. Maxwell
#9. But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools.
Johannes Rau
#10. There are three ways to get better figures ... Improve the system ... Distort the system ... Distort the figures
Brian L. Joiner
#11. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Red Skelton
#12. There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.
Julia Quinn
#13. Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw
Joe Abercrombie
#14. Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz
#15. There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#16. Whenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there are loads of people screaming at me. I'm not thinking at all so I can't really remember what's happened immediately afterwards.
Robert Pattinson
#17. There are only two reasons for buying a book, after all. Either we intend to read it, in which case most of us find a printed version preferable, or we don't intend to read it, in which case a printed version is absolutely essential.
Geoffrey Nunberg
#18. You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
Isabel Allende
#19. There are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.
Nicholas Sparks
#20. I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.
Cat Deeley
#21. It is an extraordinary fact but a true one that there are thousands of men in Britain who will never need Viagra as long as steam trains are in operation.
Bill Bryson
#22. There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
Nell Zink
#23. I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
J. Cole
#24. I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.
Richard Rodriguez
#25. Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].
Edward De Bono
#26. I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.
Cat Osterman
#27. There are really only three kinds of people. Those who don't succeed, those who achieve success temporarily, and those who become and remain successful. Character is the only way to sustain success.
John C. Maxwell
#28. There are a thousand beautiful women out there, but only a handful of them possess the grace required by such beauty to stop it from looking ugly.
Pawan Mishra
#29. There are voices you can silence.
Amy Reed
#30. There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.
Devendra Banhart
#31. If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
#32. It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.
Brian Morton
#33. There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
Chespirito
#34. There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.
Joanna Russ
#35. Once upon a time you would have said there are no real choices, only God's will.
Anonymous
#36. The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.
Alastair Campbell
#37. An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.
Matt Redman
#38. There are definitely times where I am listening to the radio, and I think, 'That would be awesome. I would love to sing that.' It's this weird karaoke fantasy that I might someday get to live out on the big screen.
Skylar Astin
#39. Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
Al McGuire
#40. God is not dead but missing in action, and we are destined to wander again for more millennia than there are undiscovered stars.
Erica Jong
#41. There are two kinds of marketing: expensive and inexpensive. Expensive marketing is the kind that doesn't work. Inexpensive marketing is the kind that works - regardless of cost.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#42. There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
Tyler Joseph
#43. There are versions of the pro-gay and anti-gay agenda that assume a simplistic rather than simple understanding of the issue - at least from a biblical perspective. Reject it or embrace it: that's the easy choice that makes for great sound-bites but ruins lives.
Michael Horton
#44. There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.
Gloria Steinem
#45. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.
Douglas Adams
#46. There are no normal people - just look at your relatives,
Rudy Rucker
#47. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.
Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly
#49. But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.
Art Bell
#50. During the Weekly Tactical, there are two overriding goals: resolution of issues and reinforcement of clarity. Obstacles need to be identified and removed, and everyone needs to be on the same page.
Patrick Lencioni
#51. Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
Barry Ritholtz
#52. When the sun sets, beautiful though it may be, billions of stars appear. The ego is but one sun. When that sun sets, there are endless suns, endless horizons beyond it.
Frederick Lenz
#53. There are storms in your own life: storms of
temptation, confusion, and difficulty ... An uneasy conscience says, Stop before it is too late!
Billy Graham
#54. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible; in a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.
Rita Rudner
#55. The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
Thomas Paine
#56. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
Mike Rowe
#57. There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)
Elin Hilderbrand
#59. There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
H.L. Mencken
#60. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.
Alice Sebold
#61. With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.
Richard Ney
#62. There is an order in this world; there are distinctions, there are differences in this world upon whose verge I step. For this is only a beginning.
Virginia Woolf
#63. Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Beauty isn't visible; I don't know why people think it is. Perhaps because at times there are physical manifestations suggesting beauty exists in a person, but don't be fooled. Beauty isn't the packaging, it's the treasure wrapped up inside.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"
Frederick Lenz
#66. Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
Mary Roach
#67. The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.
Michael Pollan
#68. There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.
Jim Palmer
#69. Criminals of this stature are usually sent abroad for their punishment, where there are jailhouses
Hannah Kent
#70. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry - the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Emma Goldman
#71. I've been chasing my music dream for a very long time and the acting dream just came up. But there are musical things I want to show the world, so that's my next step.
Roshon Fegan
#72. I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.
Tyler Posey
#73. If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.
Arsene Wenger
#74. In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attract the wolves. But in documentary film, there's none of that, so the wolves stay away. The only people who make docs are people who are curious about other people and just like making documentaries.
Marshall Curry
#75. I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question ...
George Saunders
#76. I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
Richard Rogers
#77. I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.
Mary Stewart
#78. I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.
Douglas Coupland
#79. There are days when you just don't feel all that evil."
You don't become a world-class villain overnight."
-Dr. Impossible
Austin Grossman
#80. Do go on doing a lot of walking and keep up your love of nature, for that is the right way to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see. And there are painters who never do anything that is no good...
Vincent Van Gogh
#81. There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.
Byron Katie
#82. One should learn the lessons of history. The mistakes of the past need only be made once. Unless there are no other choices. ~ Bayaz
Joe Abercrombie
#83. I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
Joe Torre
#85. I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Jonny Wilkinson
#86. Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.
Miguel Syjuco
#87. There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin.
Charlie Gordan
Daniel Keyes
#88. There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort
#89. Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey
#91. There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.
Martin Cohen
#92. In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.
Joan Raphael-Leff
#93. There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.
Sharon Kay Penman
#94. I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book, I was like, whoa! Word party!
The Harvard Lampoon
#95. The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#96. There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.
Richard Jefferies
#97. A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.
Walter Kirn
#98. Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
E. O. Wilson
#99. I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.
Jerzy Kosinski
#100. I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.
Tony Campolo
